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Crosscurrents eBook Series

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  • Writing and America

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Neil Sammells, David Timms ...
    Series series Crosscurrents
    Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    by Eric Lott ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Going to the Territory

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    "The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."-- Washington Post Book WorldThe seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    by Katherine Morrison ...
    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    by Alain Locke, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin Classic**For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... Read more

    $26.59 USD